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Y’all! We’re here!!! We just got to the house a couple of hours ago. Mum immediately made us a big pot of steaming tea, and some dosas made from red rice which we ate with some fresh coconut chutney. YUM. It already feels so good to eat my mum’s cooking, pretty much the best food [...]

My friend Joey alerted me to the monkey infestation in New Dehli. He told me the Deputy Mayor plummeted to his death while trying to get a bunch of monkeys off his balcony. I had heard nothing about this. In fact, I thought he was lying. Then I looked at this story from NBC. You [...]

Guys… I can’t believe the Big Day is just around the corner. We leave for India on SATURDAY!! I have been planning this trip for an entire year. Feeling quite surreal at the mo’. And then, to bring me back down to earth, there’s that colossal load of laundry laughing at me in the corner. [...]

Hey guys! I am recovering from a nasty bout of the stomach flu this week. I have never had it before… in fact, in the midst of my 7-hour (yes SEVEN) regurgitation battle on Monday night, I weakly typed my symptoms into WebMD to try to figure out what it was. At first, I thought [...]

Hey guys, Did you have a chance to watch Sand and Sorrow this past week? Thanks to all of you who did or who spread the word… I really appreciate it, and better yet, you know that you did something positive. I have not heard much in the way of “buzz” about the film, which [...]

From Huffpost today: “My Favorite Mistake: Helen Thomas Talks About The Mistakes She Could Never Make “My Favorite Mistake” is a new biweekly series in which writer Seema Kalia interviews various luminaries about the one mistake that taught them the most. We asked journalist Helen Thomas to be our first interview subject for this column [...]

Heard at the CNN bureau from a member of the Larry King staff. Apparently, after he finished interviewing Brad Pitt about his efforts to rebuild New Orleans, he said to someone (about Pitt), “That kid… he’s going places.”

A few interesting stories caught my eye today: 1) Honey treats coughs better than drugs! (via ABC)New research shows that honey works even better than over-the-counter drugs to soothe coughs. Which is great because (1) honey is yummier than cough syrup, (2) it’s cheaper and (3) it’s all natural! Go honeybees! Those little creatures are [...]

Just when you thought I was being too serious… I am close as I’ll ever be to doing a cartwheel. I found my favorite ice-cream flavor again! JOY! It’s Ben and Jerry’s “Neopolitan Dynamite”, an insane combination of “Cherry Garcia” and Chocolate Fudge Brownie icecreams, SIDE BY SIDE. I’m sure it used to have a [...]

At first, I confess, I dismissed the murder of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor, as yet another black athlete who involved himself in something dangerous without thinking. But, as I read more about this man, I read that he was trying to get back on track, to extricate himself from a life that offered nothing [...]